this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th international symposium on formal techniques in real-time and fault-tolerant systems, ftrtft 2002, held in oldenburg, germany, in september 2002.the 17 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited tutorials and 6 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. the papers are organized in topical sections on synthesis and scheduling, timed automata, bounded model checking, verification and conformance testing, and uml models and model checking.